In addition to the students whom the Pasha had sent to Europe in the late twenties and who came back during the mid-thirties to be appointed to senior positions in the army and the bureaucracy, this group also included men from all corners of the Ottoman world, Albanians, Circassians, Georgians, Moreans, Anatolians and Istanbullites. These men came to Egypt with their families seeking employment and entered the Pasha's service both in his civil bureaucracy and his army and navy, gradually becoming members of the new elite centered around Mehmed Ali and his family. But again, as enthusiastic as they might have been in their new posts they were often at odds with their fellow officers with whom they had nothing in common except the desire and willingness to appease the Pasha and members of his family.

XREF: Connects to earlier claim at loc 106 that Egypt's elite belonged more to the Ottoman world than to Egypt. Builds on: "Ottoman-era Egypt was a vibrant society embedded in empire."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 927